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Exit Rostov by Henry Virgin hardie grant A young girl'This is a very different book. It is fiction but it offers a sumptuous level of history and culture as the story bowls along it is quite a Brechtian experience' Tripfiction UK Travelling through Central Asia in 1996, Frederick Lyre learns of his best friend's disappearance and changes plans to go and find him. Picking up the trail in Moscow, he ventures south to the post Soviet depths of Rostov on Don and further into the hinterlands of the